The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs v1 Chapter 9 Part 2

He was holding a large sword in both hands, and had a different kind of sword on his back.

He was a young expert swordsman. Not just a swordsman, an expert swordsman.

In the game, his status was higher than any normal swordsman, and had a title that recognized him for his ability.

His father was a master swordsman who had been harshly teaching Chris the sword since he was a young age.

His calmness stemmed from his inability to display his emotions.

However, he was unrivaled when he held a sword…I didn’t like this guy either. Not only was he a character that was hard to capture, but he also can only use a sword.

Due to that, he didn’t possess any long ranged attacks, which made things difficult in the war part of the game. The habits of these past three people were too tough to handle, leading to many game overs.

Just thinking back to it made me angry.

Readying his large sword and armor, Chris held his weapon to the side, resembling the Waki-gamae stance in terms of my previous life. (TLN: Waki-gamae is a Japanese martial arts stance involving a sword.)

Chris spoke.

“──I am not negligent like the other two were. I’m going all out from the onset.”

“Is that so? In that case, perhaps I’ll also go all out.”

Perhaps still irritated that I was holding a shovel, he flared at me.

“How long do you plan on using that tool? That’s not suitable for this place.”

“You’re not the one to decide that now, are you?”

The referee announced the start.

“Begin!”

──Well, despite what I said, I did think he was a strong character. He actually made sure not to be negligent, unlike the other two.

There was no hesitation when he moved in a straight path to slash at me.

“Luxon, deploy the drones.”

[The drones are being deployed.]

Drones successively descended from the weapon containers on my back. Firearms were installed on the spherical drones.

There were eight of them.

“──Wha?!”

As they were heading towards a surprised Chris, I made my next move.

“Open fire.”

Pulling a trigger on a joystick, the drones all faced towards Chris and began firing.

Chris hurried in an attempt to avoid them, but there wasn’t much he could do when surrounded by eight drones. The damage from the machine gun attacks of the drones piled up.

Perhaps thinking that he wouldn’t win if only defended, he tried attacking the drones, but Luxon was operating them.

[How futile.]

When he tried to attack them, they would go around and attack him from behind.

However, Chris responded immediately and took measures to prevent them from going around him by stepping back to the wall. It may have seemed like a good choice, but…

“Alright, checkmate. Will you admit defeat?”

While I was carrying the shovel and didn’t move, Chris got emotional.

“You! Are you satisfied with this method of fighting?! There’s not even a trace of the knights’ way in it! What are you fighting like this for?!”

I knew that with him being particular about the sword, he wanted a knight-like fight, but to be frank, I had no interest.

“Is that all you wanted to say? This isn’t a bout. No matter how much you guys are keeping this up as a duel, it’s still a fight to the death. It’s bad to rely on firearms, you say? I never heard of a rule like that. In the first place, aren’t I, the one going against you five, the one that should be pitied? No wait, perhaps that was out of line. It’s fine if it’s five rounds of one-on-one, so I suppose it can’t be helped if I don’t receive any sympathy. All things considered, the gap between us is too big, so I was thinking about going easy on you. I even thought about going through with that fair-and-square way of the knights that you guys were talking about.”

Chris tried to moved while I kept incessantly talking. Luxon, not overlooking that, began having the eight drones around me all fire.

In order to not take his life, they used special bullets that reduced damage, but soon unable to move, Chris then used his giant sword as a shield while leaning down.

“You’re making light of me…Nobody would acknowledge a fight like this!”

“That’s fine All that matters is the outcome. You guys lose, and I win. There are few people who care about the means to the end. Ah, but you guys will probably say that you’re all those kinds of people. Your standings would worsen if you just said that you clumsily lost, after all.

“Aaaaaaargh!!”

Chris, using his willpower to push his way through the storm of bullets, reached where I was and swung down his sword. Due to Chris’ magic power and sword speed, it looked like he was swinging down a blade of light, but I caught his left hand and crushed the large sword.

“As expected of an expert swordsman, that was superb.”

Smoke was fuming out of Chris’ armor, and the referee announced the winner.

Luxon’s words stuck to my mind, strangely enough. Well, perhaps I really did overdo it a bit. However, these guys deserved to suffer defeat.

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There were voices of anxiety from the audience.

“H, hey, Chris lost.”

“What the heck. Isn’t that unfair?”

“…Say, that Leon person managed to conquer a dungeon solo and earn the position of a baron, right? Could it be that he’s really strong?”

“W, wait a minute. If that’s the case, then has the victor been set in stone? I’m going to lose everything I own!”

The audience started getting impatient after realizing that the bet they thought they would absolutely win might not go as expected. Meanwhile, the students that had looked down on Leon started to change their understanding of him.

Olivia had a face that looked as if she was about to cry.

“Anjelica, I’m…really sad. I’m glad that Leon won, but this is too cruel.”

Anjelica spoke to Olivia.

“Don’t say foolish things. Even Leon might lose if he lets his guard down. He had to take vigilance with his opponent.”

“I, is that so?”

She nodded and spoke about Chris.

“His swordsmanship instructor comes from an earl household. Chris’ father is the number one swordsman in the kingdom, earning him the title of master swordsman. That boy was able to earn the title of expert swordsman, which is only a step lower.”

Olivia was impressed.

“How amazing.”

“Sure, amazing.”

(That boy couldn’t even lift a hand or foot against him, which means…the foster brother, Jilk, is probably getting flustered.)

Looking at where Julian and the others were, she couldn’t see Jilk or his armor.

Julian was comforting Marie, who had gone pale, and when Anjelica saw that scene, her chest tightened in bitterness.

(…his Highness.)

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While Chris was being taken out of the arena and towards the medical office, Jilk was preparing for the next match.

He gave some instructions to the mechanic of his armor.

“Load all the weapons there are. I’m going to use both bullets and magic bullets.”

The mechanic widened his eyes.

“They’re not items to be used in a match!”

“This is a duel!”

The normally kind Jilk was getting impatient and lost his composure.

His green armor had feather-like decorations.

That armor was equipped with a rifle which gave off a dignified aura, and not a sword, but an axe. It was equipment that made it look quite like he was going to a battlefield.

“Can you remove the decorations and install additional armor? Afterwards, prepare hand grenades and similar items.”

The mechanic was troubled.

“Jilk, I’m limited on the parts that I have on me right now.”

Jilk casted his eyes downward, then lifted his head.

“Don’t worry. Just do what you can within the realm of what’s possible.”

While the urgent modifications to the equipment were being done, Jilk thought about the fight while not looking at his surroundings.

(I have to stop him by all means necessary. If I don’t do that, his Highness’ reputation will suffer damage.)

Jilk lived for the sake of his foster brother, his close friend. If they lost here, Julian’s reputation would drop significantly.

Not accepting that fate, Jilk took all means necessary.

He picked up a bomb that was laying nearby.

“…I’m going to head out for a bit.”

While the parts on his armor were being exchanged, Jilk stepped out of the room.

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“*yawn*~, I’m tired.”

There was a temporary break, so I went out of the arena and into the waiting room to rest.

Once I finished my business at the restroom, Olivia and Anjelica rushed over.

“Leon, where did you go?!”

“I was worried about you.”

I tilted my head in response to their reactions.

“Huh, what?”

The two exchanged glances.

“Err, um, we heard that you were in a bad condition.”

I narrowed my eyes.

“Me? I was only taking a break.”

Anjelica became a bit suspicious.

“A girl who called herself your sister appeared. Olivia confirmed that by looking at her face…and she said that you were looking unwell, so she wanted us to see you.”

My sister was worried about me? Not a chance.

She didn’t want to meet me since I picked a fight with the prince, but I definitely did cause some trouble for her. However, would she talk to me at this time?

While thinking of such things, Luxon spoke to me. The two people in front of me couldn’t hear it.

[Master, an explosive was set on the exterior. Your older sister was the one that set it, but someone ordered her to.]

…I thought so. It’s most likely that she was threatened into it.

She felt ashamed since I had picked a fight with the prince in the academy. This is where Jilk comes in.

I may be a heap of garbage, but Jilk was the scum of the earth. Well, I believe that guy would stop at nothing for the sake of Julian, and would do anything.

[The one who ordered her was your next opponent.]

While hearing Luxon’s report, I breathed a slight sigh while thinking about how my suspicions were on point.

The two looked uneasy.

“I see…so you know my sister. What actually happened was that I was holding in the urge to go. My stomach started cramping. I thought I was going to leak. That was a more difficult struggle than the duel.”

When I said that, Olivia looked flustered and embarrassed.

“S, something like that can’t be helped, can it?”

Anjelica looked at me with a cold gaze.

“Do you think you should speak like that in front of girls?”

“I suppose you got a point. I went to go pick flowers then. The arena doesn’t have any flower beds though.” (TLN: “Going to pick flowers” is an indirect way of saying that someone went to the restroom.)

When I said that, Olivia made a bitter smile.

Anjelica held her hand against her forehead.

“That explanation was…well, never mind. You’re going to make a mistake at some point if you don’t fix your normal way of speaking. Leaving that aside, it’s almost time.”

“In that case, I suppose we should go.”

Luxon gave me information as I headed to the arena.

[The explosive was set on the back of the exterior. Since the armor of this world contains important mechanisms in that spot, it seems that the perpetrator intends to seriously stop us. After calculating the quantity of explosive powder, it seems that it’s an amount that can take the life of a pilot inside any regular armor.]

The normally kind guy was the most frightening…things like that were a common trope these days.

If he lets the person trying to freaking assasinate him live thats just stupid. Who’s to say he wont try again and succeed its not like the protagonist can allways wear armor. Don’t be a yet another retarded protagonist.

Idea is to teach them a lesson. The dead can’t learn from their mistakes. Jilk only resorting to murder because desperate to save Julian’s rep. That’s assuming he believes blast would kill Leon. He might be assuming from previous fights and Leon’s armor being bigger that blast would only be enough to wound and not kill Leon. Also, suppose to be a duel so if Leon kills Jilk there’s a chance he’d be disqualified and expelled, especially considering was able to beat others easily without a scratch.

But its common knowledge that death while rare can happen and they say an oath before the match that makes it so they cant be held responsible fir tge opponents death but it would most likely make his life alot harder

She knows it’s explosives and will cripple armor considering it was put in that particular spot. Whether she knows if it’ll kill him is the question. Although since her personality is a lot like Lola’s might feel her brother’s life is a good trade for Jilk’s favor and her part of inheritance of Leon’s fortune.

well, if the oponnent of your brother tells you to put something in the main system of your brother armor,everyone with a brain would suspect that is something dangerous for your brother.but probably the sister dont care what happens to him.she just want to look good with the rich people and be herself rich too.

They ARE suffering. First the top guys that are the creme de la creme of marriage partners are being one sidedly crushed by an upstart noble of low rank. Second is that they all assumed the prince’s team would win so foolishly bet heavily on them along with a bunch getting loans so could get a better payout. Hence why Angelica started laughing and commented on Leon being so cruel earlier.

Oh wow, i thought they are most concerned about their image, but then this Jilk brat use dirty means. Well i know that the students will probably see this as normal if Jilk win, but if he lost or the bomb hurt some of the students then this will make their image worsen.

Thanks for the chapter
Wait how is this good plan again? He planning to assassinate his enemy in the middle of arena? When he fight him and the next fight is with his boss? Even they can gloss over this, their reputation will be plummeted

He’ll probably time setting bomb off with or from another attack so it’ll appear legitimate. Even if looks like murder will take full blame to protect prince. Role he’s taking is that of one who does and takes full responsibility for despicable things to protect both the prince and prince’s clean reputation. While methods utterly despicable his devotion to Prince is admirable.

Or more like, he tends to make one sibling is the bro while the others are the cunts. In seven, it was the imouto who was the cunt, while in dragoon, it was the imouto who was the bro and in this series, it was the older brother who is the bro while the siblings are all cunts.

Thanks for the translation!
Wonder if sister thinks bomb will kill or only injure Leon? Considering comments how bomb would kill pilot of normal armor and that Leon is aware of Jilk’s dishonorable means is probably going to leave it knowing at best it’ll only scratch the armor. Wonder if will call him out about it before or after it’s detonated. Or inquire on what told sister about it.

Yeah… I think he will let it explode BUT then walk out unscathed. After that he will proceed to beat the crap out of Jilk.
He’s a showoff… and he also need to make sure that none of his family is threathened (if that is what Jilk did to his sister).

What? He couldn’t care less about his sister. Whether she was threatened or not is none of his concern. Nor would his sister act with the reason that the family members important for the MC, his dad and birthmom, and his brothers, being threatened. Since she likewise doesn’t care much for them and only sees them as being useful or not.

Doesn’t anyone think it’s odd that in the story his sister from his previous life planted false evidence to black mail the MC to play a video game created for girls and after beating the game he dies and the MC along with his sister recanated into a world perfectly matching the game. If you haven’t figured out what I’m trying to get at i will just tell you. I think the MC was part of a ritual in which he was the sacrifice and was suppose to die so his sister could reincarnated into a world matching the game.

Think only ritual for reincarnating was playing the game. Also, sister wasn’t planting false evidence but selfishly taking advantage of him being out to use his space to store her books and played innocent when they were found. Besides she doesn’t know he reincarnated and thinks he’s still dead.

Dude fist off i think that playing the game was only one step in the ritual not the intire ritual itself. Second if she was storing her stuff in his room why didn’t she just admit it was her stuff? Even if she just thought the hole situation was funny and wanted to use the situation to get something from her brother why make him play a game made for girls? Why didn’t she ask for money or something else like a favor that befits her somehow? Also theirs alot of easy explanations as to why she doesn’t know the MC also reincarnated in the game world. Such as she didn’t have most reliable information source or the information on the rituals effects was vague. I just think their are to many strange things surrounding the MC death and it’s to much of coincidence. So I came up with what I thought was a some what plausible hypothesis to somewhat explain his current situation.

1. MC let it blow in his armor, showing little or no damage at all.
2. He disables the bomb, asking the cunt if he was waiting for an explosion.
3. Disables the bomb, then arm it in the cunt’s armor without him noticing it. So when the cunt detonates it, it would blow his mind. Not too sure about this because it might kill the cunt, not giving MC time to mock him (still ok if he only ends heavely injured, losing conscious after being told how big of a cunt he is).
4. Disables the bomb, and arm it somewhere on the arena.

Where has leon done any sabotage he is just stronger. Getting better weapons is okay but blowing up the other guy just bcoz you might lose is straight up evil and dishonorable plus it counts as assassination while the opponents has ensured that his opponents are not severely injured or killed by accident.

Leon brought p2w cash shop cheats to a duel. Leon’s combat scores aren’t bad, but he’s no match for the ikumen. The power of his p2w gear is way beyond the common sense of the world. Leon started the bet knowing full well he was invincible. So, yes, Jilk needs to cheat like crazy and if he doesn’t he’s a moron. Jilk probably doesn’t think the bomb is enough to kill Leon — but since Leon’s been mocking them about this being a fight to the death he better not complain.

Anyway, Leon is invincible because not only does he have the power of Arroganz he also has the support of Luxon. Jilk does his best but it won’t be enough. Jilk and Julian are the only two who manage to put up some kind of fight.